System And Method For Concatenating Short Audio Messages

Abstract

This invention relates to a system (100) and method (150) for concatenating audio data packages and for transmitting the concatenated audio data packages between terminals (102; 104) connected in a network (108). This invention further relates to a terminal (10) continuously displaying progress of recordation (32) of each audio data package while displaying total number of audio data packages (30) of present audio message.

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FIELD OF INVENTION [0001] This invention relates to a system and method for concatenating messages transferred through short audio messaging services (SAM) between terminals connected in a network, such as a mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunication network connected through a gateway to a computer terminal in a computer network. BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0002] Lately, the multimedia messaging services (MMS) have been introduced to mobile terminal networks. A MMS message may contain a picture, a series of pictures, a video, a series of videos, an audio recording, a series of audio recordings, or any combination thereof. The MMS messages have become important tools for handling business and common daily routines. A SAM message is a MMS transferred over a general packet radio service (GPRS), whereas a voicemail uses a circuit switched service as part of the global system for mobile communication (GSM). That is, a SAM message is delivered directly to a mobile terminal, where it ma...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] A particular advantage of the present invention is the provision of a mobile terminal capable of concatenating SAM messages while concurrently informing the user recording a message of progress and length of message.

[0008] A particular feature of the present invention relates to the utilisation of a fixed length SAM message, which may be concatenated with further SAM messages in accordance with a user recording of an audio message, while informing the user of the progress of recording in each SAM message and the total number of used SAM messages for the audio message.

[0013] (d) a transmitter for transmitting each of said recorded concatenated audio data packages through said telecommunication network to said receiving terminal.

[0014] The recorder according to the first aspect of the present invention may comprise a microphone for recording voice and / or a keypad for generating sounds. The recorder may thus record any combination of voice and sound effects. The sound effects may be polyphonic or monophonic and may be samples of tunes or music. Thus the audio message may be very versatile and provide the user of the transmitting terminal to record and forward a wide variety of messages to a user of a receiver. Furthermore, by enabling recording of audio data packages messaging becomes possible for illiterate people as well as enables “voice SMS”. In addition, by allowing the recording of audio data packages, instead of generation of text messages, the user confidence may be significantly increased, and written language capabilities and keypad requirements of the terminals be heavily reduced.

[0015] The user interface according to the first aspect of the present invention enables the user of the transmitting terminal to, advantageously, during a recording the audio message, continuously monitor the number of recorded audio data packages thereby being informed of the rendered costs of a transmission of the full audio message.

[0016] In addition, the user interface enables the user of the transmitting terminal to, advantageously, during recording of a particular audio data package, continuously monitor the progress of the recording of said particular audio data package. The predetermined length of the audio data package may be in the range between 10 seconds to 3 minutes, such as a predetermined length of 20 seconds.

Problems solved by technology

The length of a SAM message is fixed, thus preventing a flexibility of recording the SAM message.

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